Girardeau Samuel G SONEX
N106D is a Girardeau Samuel G SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hagerstown, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 20, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Girardeau Samuel G
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 0899
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A01B49 (octal 50015511)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 20, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00289529
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bittinger Darren C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9737 Beaver Creek Church Rd
Hagerstown, MD 21740-1521
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N106D, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bittinger Darren C, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 20, 2007, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0899 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N106D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mize AMERICAN EAGLET (serial 106, cancelled July 16, 2013); Lockheed T-33 (serial 21-288, cancelled June 29, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N106D: Accident on April 4, 2026 at Martinsburg, WV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Girardeau Samuel G Sonex-A · operated under 091
On April 4, 2026, about 1339 eastern daylight time, a Girardeau Samuel G Sonex-A airplane, N106D, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Martinsburg, WV. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The aircraft was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that 7 to 8 minutes after takeoff from Eastern WV Regional Airport (MRB), the engine exhaust gas temperatures (EGT) began to rise, while operating with a full rich mixture. When the EGTs continued to increase, he elected to return to the airport. Shortly th…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data